INSTALL file for Freecell Solver

Freecell Solver was converted to use CMake ( http://www.cmake.org/ ) starting from version 2.12.0. You’ll need to install CMake version 2.6.3 or later from your distribution’s repository or from its source distribution. NOTE: CMake 2.6.2 (that ships with some releases of Ubuntu) won’t work due to a regression bug so please don’t report any errors with it.

Next, run:

Or:

With a fallback to:

This will build and install the "freecell-solver" shared library, and "fc-solve" which is the Freecell Solver executable for you.

It will also build and install the board generation program. More information about them can be found in the "board_gen" sub-directory of this distribution.

The following parameters to the cmake" script which accept an argument control the hard-coded parameters of the Freecell Solver executables:

Notice that it’s very important to set the maximal number of initial cards per stack, or else it’s possible that a stack will eventually overflow.

In Compact States, the contents of the card stacks are stored inside the states, rather than in a central collection (where the states contain only pointers). Despite their name, they actually consume more memory than Indirect Stack States which are the default.

Compact states used to be faster than Indirect Stack States, but now it seems indirect stack states are at least slightly faster even for games whose stacks are not very long. If you still would wish to enable it, TODO : FILL IN.

Consult the CMake documentation for generating a Visual C++ , MinGW32 etc. compatible makefile or project.

To test Freecell Solver, you need to:

Please report any errors to me ( http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/ ).